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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Provide an ACTIVE MAP report - need to see a report of top maps being utilized.

Helps us to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps usage.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

DB query tool in OMoC

Need to be able to view/query tables and columns in a robust way and in real time
10 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Addition of columns in modern Inflight to reflect EDIFACT UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID

Hanon Systems is one of the most crucial customers on-boarded on SCBN with high volumes. Its extremely difficault for Hanon to check each and every EIDFACT message as they have dependency on UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID to reconcile the message...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

RTAM at supply type level

We are currently sending RTAM messages at the Distribution Group level. RTAM is posting both Onhand and Future Inventory. In the case of EU DG RTAM having both UK DC and EU DC, we do not want to consider future inventory of UK DC node. We need to ...
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume Field to be defined something like TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal (16,4) ... and not TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal(14,4) At the moment the TOTAL_VOLUME(14,4) does not accomodate over siz...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Workflow tab set to “Awaiting my attention” as a default for all users as first priority. If not, for Read only users at least.

Currently when we select the Workflow tab, MRO IO application is set to show "My outstanding Workflows" by default Since many of our high end approvers are not regular users they are getting confused and require guidance on how to get into their l...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration